Mark Dolan

The Mark Dolan Show on YouTube | Morning Host @TalkTV

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Ann Widdecombe's very last words to me on @TalkTV on Wednesday, just 24 hours before she passed 💔

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@ugghater Yikes!

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@SandyofSuffolk @ukJ0N Will do Sandy! 🙏

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@ladymarmalady That’s shocking – thank you for the input 🙏

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Yikes 👇

[Matthew Lesh @matthewlesh]

London is de-gentrifying — and that’s far more worrying than gentrification ever was.

The latest figures show the capital has recorded its first real population decline in 37 years, with 420,000 people leaving for other parts of Britain. This is a flashing sign that the nation’s capital is moving in the wrong direction.

In the early 2010s, Brixton was the poster child for urban revival. So much so that, in 2013, anti-gentrification protesters “Yuppies Out” marched on a Champagne and cheese shop. That shop closed last September. 

The Dogstar, once a nightlife landmark, and targeted in several earlier riots, was forced to shut in 2024. Squatters moved in within days, while units in Brixton market sit vacant, inviting antisocial behaviour.

Gentrification is one of those archetypal bogeymen: wealthy phonies moving into a poor but cool neighbourhood, forcing out the “true” locals in favour of matcha lattes and yoga studios, destroying an area’s character in the process.

But, in fact, everything you’ve been told about gentrification is wrong: it’s immensely beneficial to all. We’re now seeing the reverse.

Across London we’re seeing disinvestment, declining amenity, fewer homes being built, higher-income residents leaving, and an increasingly hostile attitude towards regeneration. Neighbourhoods that were once symbols of revival are instead becoming symbols of stagnation.

This isn’t authenticity triumphing over capitalism. It isn’t communities being “saved”. It’s decline.

London’s prosperity has never come from freezing neighbourhoods. It came from attracting ambitious people, investment and development. Successful regeneration transformed once crime-ridden and neglected areas into places where people actually wanted to live, work and start businesses.

Contrary to the popular narrative, the evidence that gentrification forces mass displacement has always been remarkably weak. What it overwhelmingly does is improve neighbourhoods and expand opportunity.

Yet we’ve spent the past decade romanticising poverty while treating regeneration as something shameful. Planning applications are blocked. New housing is opposed. Investment is viewed with suspicion. The result is a city that people increasingly choose to leave.

London isn’t Britain’s problem. It’s Britain’s greatest asset. When London grows, the whole country benefits. When London declines, the consequences are felt far beyond the M25.

We’ve run this experiment before. Between 1939 and 1988, London’s population fell by a quarter under policies of managed decline. It took decades to reverse that mistake. The latest figures should be a warning that we may be repeating it.

We should stop fearing gentrification and start fearing de-gentrification. London’s future depends not on managing decline, but on welcoming regeneration once again.

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For the hard of thinking, this doesn’t end well👇

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The total number of millionaires in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis

There were 442,000 millionaires in 2025, down from over 1m in 2021

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Watch me @mrmarkdolan on “Bianca Across the Nation” on NEWSMAX

[Martyn @MartynHistorian]

On @TalkTV at 07.30 tomorrow (Sunday) with @mrmarkdolan discussing Trump’s support expressed for the Argentinian ‘Malvinas’ banner.

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@CharlotteCGill Congratulations, legend – amazing brilliant achievement 👏👏👏

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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?

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@OliviaUtley Wonderful news – congratulations Olivia 🤩xx

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It hasn’t been a great week for the “caring left” has it

[Natalie Fleet MP @NatalieFleetMP]

Apologies for offence caused by my earlier tweet, which I’ve now deleted. My thoughts are - as they have always been - with Ann Widdecombe’s loved ones at this awful time.

[Talk @TalkTV]

Mark Dolan pays an emotional tribute to his close friend Ann Widdecombe, following her last media appearance on Talk.

"It's becoming increasingly likely that Ann lost her life a matter of hours after that appearance. I loved Ann."

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[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Why are so many of the “be nice” brigade so breathtakingly horrible?

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[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

My tribute to the marvellous Ann Widdecombe.
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So principled, sharp, funny, bossy and, despite the battle axe image, very kind.

RIP Ann x
https://t.co/l7t7DOcIlA

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[Talk @TalkTV]

🚨 Ann Widdecombe's last interview from Wednesday's breakfast show.

"There IS an establishment"

She stated she has no faith in parliamentary processes to come to fair conclusions and, as such understands why Nigel Farage has resigned as an MP.

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@DanicaDeGiorgio Thanks for having me Danica 🤩🙏